BurningbirdExposing science fiction writers to science David Levine writes about Launch Pad, NASA’s program to expose science to science fiction writers. Malaria, Bedbugs, Sea Lice, and Sunsets lists great ocean weblogs. Photojojo covers strange photo projects. The squished people don’t do anything for me, but I do like the little people, big world photos. You’ve all watched the Large […]
Lots out of Australia about squid this week: From ABC: New Zealand’s mysterious colossal squid, the largest of the feared and legendary species ever caught, was not the T-Rex of the oceans but a lethargic blob, new research suggests. At least it’s not a costume filled with possum road kill. To answer last week’s question, as to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. You can tell when the gas prices are lower: the stations are filled with big SUVs and trucks. And today we find out that Missouri has the lowest gas prices in the country. For now, that is. I used some of the lower gas prices to fuel a trip to […]
After all these years, we have finally reached the point where we’ve separated page organization from presentation, and now we’re about to embark on the same mistakes again, but this time with presentation and semantics. I’ve been following the issues associated with the vocabindex Drupal module, including one where the person submitting the bug stated the […]
Hank Williams responded to the recent ECMAScript Harmony announcement with a post titled, Ru Roh! Adobe Screwed By EcmaScript Standards Agreement. In it, he writes: Adobe provided support to the standards body in helping to define the standard, and most importantly, in creating an open source virtual machine called Tamarin that would run EcmaScript 4.0. But […]